How does Maison Asrar Rose smell?
The top leans fruity. Blackberry and apricot bring juicy, slightly tart fruit, bergamot adds a citrus snap, and the listed Aqueous note points at a wet, clean, dewy effect rather than any single ingredient. On paper that makes a bright front for the floral heart to arrive into. The heart has four flowers: lotus flower (a watery, soft bloom), rose, magnolia (creamy and a touch fruity) and lily of the valley (green, fresh and clean). Together they should read as a soft, airy bouquet more than a heavy, petal-by-petal rose.
Musk and cedarwood are the only two base notes. Musk gives a soft, skin-like, slightly creamy cushion, and cedarwood adds a dry, pencil-shaving woodiness that stops the flowers drifting into pure sweetness. With the Aqueous note and the lotus flower still in mind, you can expect a clean, airy floral that reads as fresh and gently fruity rather than dark or spiced. That is a reading from the list alone, so treat it as a direction rather than a certainty.
What Maison Asrar's own page says about Rose
Maison Asrar's product page for Rose gives its family as floral.
It also puts words of its own on two of the notes: musk (soft, sensual) and rose (floral, elegant, romantic).
Who might like Maison Asrar Rose?
Someone who likes a floral that keeps its freshness: rose and magnolia without a heavy, resinous base, helped along by fruit and a clean watery touch. It suits a reader who prefers soft musk and light cedarwood over sweetness or smoke. For comparison, look in the rest of the Maison Asrar range at other note lists that pair a fruit top with a flower-led heart and a short musk-and-wood base.
Rose and the rest of the Maison Asrar range
The link with Maison Asrar Bloom Bloom is rose, magnolia, lily of the valley, musk and cedarwood. Rose sets blackberry, bergamot, apricot and lotus flower beside that, the other one pear, peach, freesia and sandalwood.
What Rose has in common with Maison Asrar Casablanca: bergamot, rose, lily of the valley and musk. What it keeps to itself: blackberry, apricot, lotus flower and magnolia. On the other side stand orange, pear, ambergris and moss.
Maison Asrar Fairyland overlaps in bergamot, rose, musk and cedarwood. Its own notes are mandarin, cinnamon, cypriol and geranium, against blackberry, apricot, lotus flower and magnolia here.
Where to buy Maison Asrar Rose in Europe
Maison Asrar Rose is not in the FragranceGems range at the moment; the shop's Maison Asrar page shows what is available. Among the scents the shop sells, Maison Asrar Ameer shares bergamot, rose and lily of the valley with it and Maison Asrar Belgravia shares bergamot, lily of the valley and musk with it.
Shop Maison Asrar at FragranceGemsOpens the Maison Asrar page of FragranceGems.
Looking for something particular? Tell FragranceGems which scent you want.
Illustration
